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On 2004-02-28 21:07, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> In multiwindow mode, XWin doesn't reset when the last client exists. It isn't supposed to. Run 'twm' as your window manager and you will see that the X Server does not reset when the last non-window manager client exits; this is because the window manager itself is a client.
ACK. I think this should be noted in the documentation -- I didn't expect the "magical" window manager to count as a client.
As for preventing multiple instances of XWin, a kludgy way to do it is by checking if anyone is listening on the X server port, using NETSTAT. Example:
BTW, -nounixkill seems to to be broken (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace still terminates XWin).
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